Fatores críticos de sucesso no mercado bancário brasileiro de comércio exterior - Um estudo de caso do Banco Santander Banespa através da estratégia " Visão baseada em recursos"

O presente trabalho identifica e analisa de forma exploratória os fatores críticos de sucesso para um banco atuando no mercado brasileiro de comércio exterior, através de entrevistas individuais e de pesquisa pela internet com clientes e funcionários do Banco Santander Banespa. A fundamentação teórica baseada na Gestão de Serviços e de Operações, no Marketing de Varejo e na Estratégia serviu de base para o levantamento dos possíveis recursos e competências que podem ser fonte de vantagem competitiva. Após esse levantamento baseado na teoria, segue-se uma etapa de pesquisa de campo formulada em duas partes, realizada entre janeiro e março de 2007. A primeira parte consistiu de entrevistas com uma amostra de pequeno tamanho e representada por funcionários e clientes do Banco Santander Banespa localizados em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Curitiba. A segunda parte consistiu de pesquisa com clientes pessoa jurídica do Banco Santander Banespa, todos do segmento de middle-market, localizados em vários estados brasileiros. Durante as entrevistas individuais surgiu como provável fonte de vantagem competitiva o recurso “presença do banco em outros países”, que foi então incluído para investigação através da pesquisa realizada na segunda parte. Os resultados obtidos foram então analisados à luz do modelo VRIO, oriundo da estratégia da Visão Baseada em Recursos, ou RBV – Resource-based View. O resultado final mostrou que são considerados fatores críticos de sucesso para um banco atuando no mercado brasileiro de comércio exterior: flexibilidade e rapidez para customização de serviços e produtos de acordo com as necessidades do cliente; limite de crédito concedido; preço; flexibilidade, cordialidade, capacitação técnica e rapidez no atendimento prestado pelos gerentes; qualidade na entrega dos serviços e produtos; tecnologia. Tais recursos analisados através do modelo VRIO mostraram que o Banco Santander Banespa encontra-se em situação de paridade competitiva no mercado bancário de comércio exterior.

Satisfação e fidelização do cliente bancário

O sector bancário é um serviço caracterizado pela enorme competitividade e por uma difícil diferenciação da sua gama de produtos. Este relatório foca ferramentas do marketing relacional, como a satisfação e a fidelização dos clientes, que são factores chaves de sucesso para a diferenciação e sustentação do crescimento de uma organização bancária. Sendo a satisfação dos clientes com um serviço de difícil mensuração, é ainda efectuado um estudo com base no modelo SERVQUAL, a fim de relacionar a qualidade do serviço com a satisfação dos clientes da Caixa de Crédito Agrícola Mútuo (CCAM) de Adémia. Como resultado deste estudo, conclui-se que o bom serviço prestado por esta instituição se relaciona positivamente com a satisfação dos clientes.

Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) - Repeat Visitation Opportunities for Destination Marketing Organisations

In competitive tourism markets the consumer-traveller is spoilt by choice of available destinations. Successfully differentiating a destination and getting noticed at decision time is arguably the focus of activities by destination marketing organisations (DMOs). In pursuit of differentiation, three emergent themes in the marketing literature during the past decade have been branding, integrated marketing communications (IMC), and customer relationship management (CRM) a fundamental goal of each being stimulating customer loyalty. However there has been little attention given to destination loyalty in the tourism literature. The purpose of this paper is to report an exploratory investigation of visitor relationship management (VRM) by DMOs. Based on interviews with the management of 11 regional tourism organisations (RTO) in Queensland, Australia, the opportunities for, and immediate challenges of, VRM are discussed. While each RTO recognised the potential for VRM, none had yet been able to develop a formal approach to engage in meaningful dialogue with previous visitors from their largest market.

Consumer appraisals of mobile marketing communications

This paper reports on a study that investigates the emotions elicited from appraising SMS-based mobile marketing (m-marketing) communications under three marketing conditions: product consistency, incentives and permission giving. Results from the experimental design show that appraising m-marketing communications elicits both single emotions and mixed emotions; that is, a mixture of positive and negative emotions in the same response. Additionally, the results show that the influence of specific marketing conditions may increase or reduce the intensity of the emotions elicited. This study contributes to marketing practice by examining consumer appraisals of m-marketing communications under different combinations of marketing conditions. The results provide insights into which emotions are likely to be elicited as a result, and how a specific marketing condition might influence their levels of intensity. The study contributes to marketing theory also through combining appraisal theory with Richins (1997) consumption emotion set.

Mobile phone consumption and implications for SMS marketing

This paper reports on a Q-methodology study on the consumption of mobile phones and opinions on SMS-marketing, extracted from interpretive interviews and focus groups. The Metaphors Q-sort, developed within a framework of Holt's (1995) four metaphors of consumption, identifies three experiential value clusters in the consumption of mobile phones: the Mobile Pragmatists, the Mobile Connectors and the Mobile Revelers. The SMS-marketing Q-sort identifies two key clusters of subjective opinions on various aspects of SMS-based mobile-marketing. By integrating the findings from these two Q-sorts, we demonstrate that while all three value clusters express positive opinions towards ‘location specific’ and ‘customer initiated contact’ SMS-marketing, there are noticeable differences in how marketers should develop their strategies to maximize the consumers’ perceived experiential value derived from the consumption of their mobile phones. Keywords: mobile phones; experiential consumption: SMS-marketing; Q-methodology

Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC): New Discipline with an Old Learning Approach: A Syllabi Analysis

Marketing communications as a discipline has changed significantly in both theory and practice over the past decade. But has our teaching of IMC kept pace with the discipline changes? The purpose of this paper is to explore how far the evolving concepts of IMC are reaching university learners. By doing this, the paper offers an approach to assessing how well marketing curricula are fulfilling their purpose. The course outlines (syllabi) for all IMC courses in 30 universities in Australia and five universities in New Zealand were analyzed. The findings suggest that most of what is taught in the units is not IMC. It is not directed by the key constructs of IMC, nor by the research informing the discipline. Rather, it appears to have evolved little from traditional promotion management units and is close in content and structure to many introductory advertising courses. This paper suggests several possible explanations for this, including: (1) a tacit rejection of IMC as a valid concept; (2) a lack of information about what IMC is and what it is not; and (3) a scarcity of teaching and learning materials that are clearly focused on key constructs and research issues of IMC.